Microsoft Cloud Deal With ICE Draws Ire From Employees

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE, has found itself stuck in the news cycle for the act of ripping apart families and the inhumane detention of children in cages. Now, Microsoft has found itself in the crosshairs of its own employees for a deal that allows ICE to use one of Microsoft's cloud computing platforms.

As reported by Gizmodo, tensions have risen within Microsoft as employees are finding issue with the deal allowing ICE to use the Azure government cloud. Azure is a service used for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through data centers managed by Microsoft. Speaking to Gizmodo, a couple employees outright stated that this is the type of partnership that would make them reconsider employment.

Microsoft condemned the separation of families by ICE in a statement to Gizmodo, but there have been no further comments. The full scope of the ICE's use of Azure is also unknown to the public at this time.

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Wonder how enraged all of these employees would be if their jobs were on the line due to a lack of revenue for the company... You're a peon, if you don't like the decisions being made by your employer, you can always quit.

It was a merger of two previous agencies, Customs Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. They used to work together since one was more administrative and the other was investigative and enforcement. It was a lot more streamlined to combine the two agencies since it was tricky for either to budget joint operations.

It'd be like if the FBI was split between the special agents and the intelligence and support services.